"Kunstler, who majored in Theater at college and has no formal training in the fields in which he prognosticates, made similar predictions for Y2K as he makes for peak oil.[5][6] Kunstler responds to this criticism by saying that a Y2K catastrophe was averted by the hundreds of billions of dollars that were spent fixing the problem, a lot of it "in secret," he claims.[7]"
It would appear that he's still majoring in theater.
Ah, good find. I worked in Y2K remediation and most of the threat was bogus. We corrected for many things that would never happen. Simply put, the fear of malfunction caused by rollover in a chip's date function assumed that the date was relevant to the process being performed and also that the date was synchronized with the current date (Remember the computers that reset themselves to Jan 1, 1980 or something similar? A door opening chip that was regularly powered off without saving a date to non-volatile storage would like spend its whole life in the 1980s, never seeing Y2K. There are bunches of similar examples.) Y2K agitation can be compared to the movie Reefer Madness.
"Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future!"
I was wondering about the “local theater” bit! Thanks for the info.